Federal electoral district in Quebec, Canada
Brossard—La Prairie was a federal electoral district in Quebec , Canada, that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1997 to 2015. As of 2011, its population is 128,001.
Geography
The riding was located in the South Shore area of the Montreal metropolitan region, within the Quebec region of Montérégie .
The district included the Cities of Candiac and La Prairie , the Municipality of Saint-Philippe , and the City of Brossard .
The neighbouring ridings were Châteauguay—Saint-Constant , Beauharnois—Salaberry , Saint-Jean , Chambly—Borduas , Saint-Bruno—Saint-Hubert , and Saint-Lambert . Jeanne-Le Ber and LaSalle—Émard located across the Champlain Bridge.
History
The riding was created in 1996 from parts of La Prairie riding.
It consisted initially of the cities of Brossard, Candiac and La Prairie, and the Parish Municipality of Saint-Philippe in the County Regional Municipality of Roussillon.
It was dissolved into the new ridings of La Prairie and Brossard—Saint-Lambert for the 2015 election.
Members of Parliament
This riding has elected the following members of Parliament :
Election results
2008 Canadian federal election
Party
Candidate
Votes
%
Expenditures
Liberal Alexandra Mendès 1 19,103
32.59
-2.4
$36,025
Bloc Québécois Marcel Lussier 1 19,034
32.47
-4.7
$57,985
Conservative Maurice Brossard
11,062
18.87
+2.0
$65,223
New Democratic Hoang Mai 7,452
12.71
+5.3
$5,268
Green Sonia Ziadé
1,816
3.10
-0.2
$1,057
Marxist–Leninist Normand Chouinard
157
0.27
+0.1
Total valid votes/expense limit
58,624 100.00 $92,860
Rejected ballots
563 1.0
Turnout
59,187 65.1
Liberal gain from Bloc Québécois
Swing
-1.1
1 Alexandra Mendes of the Liberal party won the riding seat on 24 October 2008 following a judicial recount. Previously, the Returning Officer for the riding validated the vote counts as 19,202 to 19,100 in favour of Marcel Lussier of the Bloc Québécois.[ 3]
2006 Canadian federal election
Party
Candidate
Votes
%
Expenditures
Bloc Québécois Marcel Lussier 21,433
37.2
-3.8
$38,970
Liberal Jacques Saada 20,190
35.0
-10.9
$67,491
Conservative Tenzin Khangsar
9,749
16.9
+11.0
$9,901
New Democratic Robert Nicolas
4,301
7.5
+3.1
$1,510
Green François Desgroseilliers
1,883
3.3
+0.7
$351
Marxist–Leninist Normand Chouinard
110
0.2
0.0
Total valid votes/expense limit
57,666 100.0 $84,147
2004 Canadian federal election
Party
Candidate
Votes
%
Expenditures
Liberal Jacques Saada 24,155
45.9
-6.8
$79,076
Bloc Québécois Marcel Lussier
21,596
41.0
+8.1
$34,591
Conservative Robert Nicolas
3,107
5.9
-5.4
$7,661
New Democratic Nadia Alexan
2,321
4.4
+2.7
$1,767
Green Cécile Bissonnette
1,340
2.5
–
Marxist–Leninist Yves Le Seigle
109
0.2
-0.1
Total valid votes/expense limit
52,628 100.0 $81,275
Note: Conservative vote is compared to the total of the Canadian Alliance vote and Progressive Conservative vote in 2000 election.
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